by Logan Chance
PENNY
As I entered the cool-colored bathroom of the restaurant I leaned against the door and inhaled a sharp breath. What happened?
I was a prisoner to my regret. I feared the feelings seeping through my bones of Theo. His smile was my undoing, but his words captured me and made me weak. I couldn’t resist him.
My head was filled with a noise I couldn’t silence, and I was terrified. I reminded myself of Dex and what we shared as I washed my hands.
I gazed into the mirror as I ran a finger through the ragged mess of which it had become.
The way he touched me, the way he spoke to me. I couldn’t get the deep timbre of his words from my memory.
The feel of his dick in my hands had me flushed all over again as I tried to contain myself.
There was an uproar flowing through me, a disruption in my system I could no longer ignore. I needed to plant my feet back to the ground and keep my heart out of the stars. These things I felt for Theo were wrong, and I needed to remember Dex. Oh God, poor Dex.
I was an awful girlfriend, and once again shook my head as I tamed the frizz my hair had become.
If I leave this bathroom, everyone will know. They’ll know I had Theo’s fingers deep inside me as I stroked his dick.
I felt safe within these four walls. I never wanted to leave this solace I had found. As soon as I felt I could leave the restroom, the door swung open and Rose had entered the room.
“Hi there, dear,” she said and I wanted to gouge my guilt-ridden eyes out.
“Hi,” I blew the word out along with the breath I’d been holding.
Rose’s smile was laced with curiosity and I grew paranoid. I tried to smile back as my lips failed me, and my tight-lipped expression did not go unnoticed.
“Is something wrong Penny?” she asked.
“No, nothing,” I answered all too quickly in an unfamiliar high-pitched tone.
The safe haven I’d found had vanished before my eyes. All that stood in its place was a woman who resembled both of her sons. Her soft brown eyes locked with mine as she challenged me to tell her what she most likely already knew.
“Mm-hmm.” Her questioning glance lingered a moment longer before she turned toward the mirror, opening her purse and pulling out a tube of lip gloss. As she puckered her lips and leaned closer to her own reflection, her eyes met mine in the mirror.
The misery her stare was putting me in made my insides squirm and I felt like shouting all my secrets to her.
“This is a nice place. Dex really loves it here.” Dex had taken me to the restaurant once before on a date, and he liked to be seen.
“It is. I don’t Theo does though. How do you like working with him?”
“I love it, he’s been great.” Ok, I may have answered a little too eagerly on that question and it did not go unnoticed as Rose gave me a knowing smile.
“He’s sometimes a little bossy though.” She raised her eyebrow as she ran the gloss over her bottom lip.
“Maybe sometimes,” I answered as my thoughts fell back to minutes earlier when he asked me to touch his throbbing dick. My breath escaped me at the memory and my cheeks flushed.
“He’s a good man,” his mother said as she walked out of the bathroom leaving me questioning my sanity.
I couldn’t hide in the restroom of the Clevlander forever, so finally after smoothing my skirt I stepped into the hallway.
I glanced at the small corridor Theo had held me against earlier and my breath caught.
Returning to the table, Dex and Theo both stood as I took my seat.
The reaminder of the meal was uncomfortable, and my eyes darted everywhere but at Theo.
He, however, appeared relaxed with his arm slung haphazardly over the back of the vacant chair beside him. He ate the bread offered before the meal lazily as he chatted with his mother about Lucy.
“Mom, there is something I do want to discuss.” His eyes saddened and my heart hurt for him for a moment before he spoke again. “Nadine sent her mother a postcard and she wants to see Lucy.”
Dex about spit out the Manhattan he’d been sipping on as Rose’s hands flew in the air. “Absolutely not. Theo are you kidding? This woman has no right to come waltzing back into Lucy’s life after she abandoned her.”
Dex agreed with Rose as I sat watching the commotion around the table.
“I agree Mom, but what if she is willing to change?”
It almost looked like Theo had slapped his mother as she gasped. “Change? She’ll never change. Women like her don’t know what it means to be a mother.”
“I think that’s a little harsh,” Theo breathed as our eyes met.
His light had vanished from his eyes and the stale brown left there was filled with an emptiness I didn’t like. I offered a small smile with which he returned faintly then returned his attention back to his mother.
“Theo, listen to me. Whatever you decide, please keep Lucy’s best interest in mind.”
“Of course I am.” Theo ran a hand over his beard as the food arrived.
I watched as Theo pushed his food around on his plate.
Dex’s hand landed on my leg, just above the knee and I froze. He massaged as I tried to remember how to breathe. In through the nose out through the mouth.
He smiled, I tried to smile back and then Theo glanced over. His eyebrow quirked up as he knew what was going on under the table.
I wanted out, I needed a breath of fresh air, but I couldn’t very well rush back into the bathroom.
“Penny, have you met Lucy yet?”
“I have,” I answered as I remained in my ramrod straight posture as Dex’s hand was slowly inching up my thigh.
Theo watched and I couldn’t focus on anything. A heat traveled all over my body as I tried to focus on Rose telling me how she adored her granddaughter.
“She is amazing,” I responded after she finished.
The smile that appeared on Theo’s face was worth everything in the world to me in this moment and my chest burned.
I swatted Dex’s hand away as I tried to get my fork to cooperate with my fingers. It was useless and I just smiled as Rose continued on about the preciousness of Lucy.
My thoughts drifted to Nadine, her mother and I couldn’t help but feel bad for Theo. He was a good father, wanting the best for his daughter and it made my soul clench.
Dex replaced his hand on my thigh and I grabbed onto the familiarity of it as I tried to push away the thoughts of Theo burning a hole through my chest.
After dinner, I left with Dex and once we were driving down the interstate to his house he let out an angry humph.
“What was that?” he asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Swatting my hand away under the table.”
“Your mother was there. It felt uncomfortable.”
“Penny, what is wrong with you lately?” he asked.
I’m falling for your brother, I answered in my head. Crawling into my own skin was not an option and I needed to put myself in the present with Dex.
I’d cheated on him, and the regret and guilt took over as I tried my hardest to figure out what to tell him.
I couldn’t very well continue with him in a relationship if I was having these feelings for Theo.
The way I felt for Dex didn’t even come close to the butterflies which would appear in my stomach whenever Theo was near.
I let Dex continue to talk as I thought of ways to break it off with him.
When we arrived at his house, he led me to his room.
He tried to kiss me, and my head turned of its own volition.
“What the fuck, Penny?”
“I’m sorry.” I tried to continue but couldn’t focus on anything as a pain in my lower abdomen took over and brought me to my knees.
“Penny, are you ok?” Dex knealt beside me as the pain erupted causing me to shout out.
Chapter Twelve
THEO
On the drive back to my place, I th
ought back to the way Penelope’s sweet pussy felt wrapped around my fingers. The sound of her cries as she came all around me still rang in my ears.
What was I going to do?
I wanted her to be mine. There hadn’t been a girl to turn my head and heart since Nadine. Even then, I was young and with Penelope it felt like more.
I was actually thinking about a possibility with her.
As stupid as it was, I wanted more.
Even though she was with Dex. I knew I could treat her better.
I needed to get myself together. This train of thought was not what I needed to focus on right now.
I was a man who didn’t need this headache.
Moving through my condo, I grabbed a few of Lucy’s dolls and brought them to her bedroom.
At the end of the day, the truth of the matter was I fucking felt up Penelope in the hallway of some restaurant and I needed to have my head examined. The overwhelming sense to touch her was too much to handle. The pure beauty of her giving me an orgasm was one of the best feelings I’d ever experienced.
But now what? What was I to make of the whole situation?
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